print
- Museum number
- 1858,0213.146
- Title
- Object: Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
- Description
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Portrait, standing whole-length directed to left, right hand on hip, left hand on the edge of a covered table, looking towards the viewer, wearing robes and chain of the garter, sword, lace cravat and long white wig, in a classical interior with a bust of Cicero in a niche behind him to right; after Hoare; state before dedication erased and publication line added.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1740-1756
- Dimensions
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Height: 495 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 345 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Acquisition notes
- A note in the register reads: 'Nos 132 to 241 inclusive came from the Library in one of Miss Banks's portfolios lettered 'Ceremonials', but the contents will not agree with such a title; some of the prints too have evidently never belonged to the Banks collection.'
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0213.146